From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 20:38:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61087106566B; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32EDB8FC0A; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:38:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C00A446B0C; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:38:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7AB178A03C; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:38:54 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Doug Barton Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:38:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C11499E.6050300@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4C11499E.6050300@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006101638.39084.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:38:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: etcupdate tool in base? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:38:56 -0000 On Thursday 10 June 2010 4:22:54 pm Doug Barton wrote: > On 06/10/10 10:46, John Baldwin wrote: > | I've had several folks ask me recently about importing etcupdate > | (http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/etcupdate) into the base system as an alternate > | tool for updating /etc during upgrades. Do folks have any strong objections > | to doing so? More details about how it works and an HTML version of the > | manpage can be found at the URL above. > > Initially mergemaster was a port which gave lots of people the > opportunity to gain familiarity with it easily. At some point after it > had been a port for a while there was a "critical mass" of people > suggesting that it be moved into the base system since it was one of > those ports that almost everyone installed anyway. > > That said, I have no objection to whatever the community decides should > be done with etcupdate. Given that they approach the problems of > updating differently I think that there will be people who are more > attracted to it instead of mergemaster, and that's fine too. :) My inclination is to simply add a port, but I had a rash of folks contact me today, so I was testing the waters to see what level of critical mass was present. -- John Baldwin